Sheila Watt-Cloutier, an Inuit global warming activist, has been driven to her passion for conserving her environment because of her culture’s connection to the land. The Inuit culture is strongly based around the hunt, a rite of passage that teaches young people essential life lessons. Watt-Cloutier can see this cultural tradition is at risk and she preaches her cultures values on the world stage to protect it. Both women are passionate about their cultures, believe in them, and are willing to be strong to protect and exercise them. People with alternate cultures, other than the most popular for a given region are always viewed differently.
Why does the young Fatima prefer to wear her Tunisian clothes to the Western dresses her mother likes her to wear? Why does her mother want her to wear Western clothes? Fatima does not want to worry about dirtying and disarranging the Western type dresses. She would rather wear her traditional, comfortable clothing that does not require much attention. Her mother wants her to wear Western clothing because she does not want her daughter to follow tradition, and believes that clothing can change the way people view her.
These connections among these identities are worth looking at because they reveals the struggles of characters. Second, I look at similar identities of people in completely different environments. People from different communities and classes always have similar roles, however, they have different experience with these similar roles due to the different environments they are in. Moreover, sometimes when people are in exactly the same environment and have the same born-with identities, they value their identities differently. What are the reasons for these similarities and differences?
When a western woman stays at home to look after her house and kids, she is respected by the entire society because of of sacrificing her life to her house. But then, if a Muslim woman does the same, why the hell she been oppressed? When a girl go to university wearing what she wills, she has her rights and freedom. But why the hell when a Muslim girl wears hijab, they prevent her from entering the university? When a child dedicates himself to a subject, he has potential
Gabrielle Fagan English 1102 Liane Lemester September 28, 2011 Compare and Contrast: “Everyday Use” & “Two Kinds” There are many similarities and differences in the two stories “Everyday Use” and “Two Kinds.” “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker and “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan are both stories that show strong variances in characters that experience a change when they get a better understanding of life. Amy Tan portrays a different type of cultural conflict in mother and daughter relationships than Alice Walker, such as expectations and attitudes in order to display the characters individuality to the reader and get the reader to understand and see both sides of the mother and daughter’s story. In Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds”, there is a very complexed mother and daughter relationship that Tan wants us to notice and we pick up on this relationship fairly quick throughout the story. Amy Tan’s focus in this story is the scrutinized distance between the mothers who was born in China before the communist revolution and have ben cut off from the their Chinese culture for years after. And the Chinese daughters that were born in America who have to juggle both struggles of their Chinese origin and the American prospects in order to succeed and meet their mothers expectations.
Equality Diversion and Inclusion. Diversity is variety and being different from others. Diversity is having an end goal but people doing a slightly different job to get a goal achieved. We all live in a diverse world; people vary and are different in many ways, for example age, sex, sexual choice in orientation, also physical and cultural varity. People have different coloured skin, hair ability, educational skills and life experiences also their beliefs and values and preferences.
“Effect of Language on Gender and Ethnic Groups” It is widely accepted that Language has a profound effect on how we perceive and interact with the world around us. It is a major component of culture. The degree of which language influences culture or culture influences language is still in debate. However it is likely that both processes occur. Differences in dialects can highlight social differences between men and women and between different ethnic groups.
Every country, city, and land has its own tradition and culture that is entirely different from each other. In different countries people have different understanding of what is acceptable in a conversation. We encourage the use of strong handshaking, eye-contact and respect of other people. These norms are not the same in every country. A person’s nationality can affect the way he communicates with other people and how they interpret the other person’s body language.
It just advices women to use the hijab as an act of obedience to God. Secondly, women wearing hijabs become a very visible sign of Islam. While Muslim men can blend easily into any society, Muslim women are often put on the line and forced to defend not only their decision or not to cover their bodies but also their religion. Thirdly, women who use the hijab lose their identity as women because they cannot dress appropriately according to their gender. It is not certain that the hijab frees women from being seen as sexual objects of desire or from being valued for their looks or body shape.
Are emotions universal, or are they socially constructed? Emotions are an experience of disgust, happiness, sadness, fear, anger and surprise that helps us form and engage our relationships (Dacher, Oatley, & Jenkins, 2013). These six basic emotions are universal because they are expressed in all cultures, but the reactions to these emotions are socially constructed. Boiger and Mesquita (2012) claimed that most of the emotions happen in the contexts of relationships and social interactions. When the emotions are socially constructed, we are stating that, due to different cultures the communications of emotions are different, because diverse cultures have different facial expressions, and different nonverbal behaviour for these emotions.